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RURAL Illinois can be just as beau- 

 tiful in the winter as in the other 

 , seasons of the year. Particularly in 

 the woodland after a new fallen 

 snow. Our cover scene this month was 

 taken in a northern Illinois woods after a 

 fresh snowfall. 



It is the 30th in our series of cover 

 pictures of historic and picturesque Il- 

 linois. 



fric Johnston 



Paul Hoffman 



AFBF CONVENTION 



Top Speakers to be Heard at Chicago Meeting Dec. 

 13-15 Include Eric Johnston, Paul Hoffman, Sen. 

 Clinton Anderson, Allan Kline and Mme. Vijaya Pandit 



A PROGRAM featuring nationally 

 prominent leaders has been ar- 

 ranged for the 31st annual meet- 

 ing of the American Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation Dec. 13-15 in 

 Chicago. Headquarters for the conven- 

 tion will be in the Hotel Stevens. 



A full airing of national farm policy 

 and other issues, a speaking program 

 made up of top authorities in many 

 fields, adoption of policy resolutions, 

 and election of officers and directors 

 will provide the highlights of the con- 

 vention. 



Among the guest speakers will be 

 Paul G. Hoffman, administrator. Eco- 

 nomic Cooperation Administration, and 

 Eric Johnston, president. Motion Pic- 

 ture Association of America, Inc. 



Others who will address the conven- 

 tion delegates are: Sen. Clinton P. An- 

 derson, former Secretary of Agriculture 

 (D., New Mexico), Rep. Christian A. 

 Herter (R.. Mass.). Rep. Mike Moroney 

 (D., Okla.), and Rep. Albert Gore (D., 

 Tenn.). 



President Allan B. Kline of the AFBF 

 will give his adress the morning of Dec. 

 13 following the annual report of Wil- 

 fred Shaw, secretary of the AFBF. 



Another of the featured speakers will 

 be George H. Wilson, member of the 

 AFBF board of directors from Cali- 

 fornia. Wilson will tell the conven- 

 tion about his recent 'round-the-world 

 "Town Meeting" tour. 



Additional speakers will appear at 

 the convention to discuss topics of in- 

 terest to farm people. 



The closing business session of the 

 convention Dec. 15 will be devoted to 



the adoption of resolutions and the elec- 

 tion of officers and directors. 



The 15th annual convention of the 

 Associated Women Dec. 11-12 will pre- 

 cede the AFBF meetings. One of the 

 principal speakers to address the Asso- 

 ciated Women will be Vijaya Lakshmi 

 Pandit, the ambassador of India, who 

 will speak on "India and the United 

 States" the evening of Dec. 12. 



The dinner for voting delegates of 

 the Associated Women will be held at 

 6:30 p.m. Dec. 11 in the South Ball 

 Room of the Stevens. 



The Rural Youth meeting will open 

 Dec. 12 and also scheduled for the same 

 day are conferences on fruit and vege- 

 tables, poultry, livestock, tax and legis- 

 lative problems, organization and other 

 subjects. 



Mrs. Raymond Sayre, national presi- 

 dent of the Associated Women, will 

 make her keynote address Monday 

 morning and a business session will be 

 held that afternoon, to elect officers and 

 board members and to plan a program 

 for 1950. 



Brown County 

 Youth is Elected 

 FFA President 



AN ILLINOIS farm boy has been 

 elected national president of the 

 Future Farmers of America. 



He is George Lewis, 19, of Mt. Ster- 

 ling in Brown county. Lewis was voted 

 to the top FFA post at the organiza- 

 tion's 22nd annual convention held in 

 Kansas City. He succeeds Doyle Con- 

 nor of Starke, Fla. 



George is the son of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Dana Lewis who farm near Hersman. 

 His father is a member of the Brown 

 County Farm Bureau. 



Election to the national presidency 

 climaxes a brilliant FFA career for 

 Lewis, who has also won the Illinois 

 State Star Farmer award, recognizing 

 him as tops of the state's more than 14,- 

 000 Future Farmers. 



He has been president of his state, 

 sectional and local FFA organizations. 

 Last year Lewis placed fourth in the 

 national speaking contest and has won 

 state and regional speaking contest hon- 

 ors. 



He is a freshman in the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture but will 

 leave school for a year in order to ful- 

 fill his duties as a national FFA officer. 



He was graduated from Mt. Sterling 

 high school in 1948. Lewis is farming 

 in one-third partnership with his father 

 on 120 acres and holds 50 per cent in- 

 terest with his brother in herds of reg- 

 istered Guernsey cows and registered 

 Hampshire hogs. George is the sixth 

 of nine children in the Lewis family. 



NfW FFA PRESIDENT 



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